Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarters was any one so cheerfully cynical as retired General Smedley D. ("Gimlet Eye") Butler of the U. S. Marines, who said at Albuquerque, N. Mex.: "After Italy and Germany get the swamps and deserts they're after, they'll all sit down and talk it over." Still fewer were as cheerfully bellicose as Sergeant Alvin C. York, No. 1 U. S. hero of the last war, who said at Pall Mall. Tenn...
...Italy's most stubborn antiFascist. The Fascist oath of allegiance, once addressed "to the King and his successors," has been shorn of the last three words. Crown Prince Umberto rarely appears at Fascist celebrations. His sympathizers like to say that he once challenged Benito Mussolini to a duel, still speaks to him like a Prince addressing his Premier...
...characterizations. Walter Lippmann "would never even break his wooden sword unless he should trip over it in a minuet." Dorothy Thompson, "the Cassandra of the columnists*. . . a sincere and earnest lady who is trying to cover too much ground." Mark Sullivan "would be missed . . . even if the world would still manage nicely without the pontifications that waddle through his worried columns." Frank R. Kent "delights in cruel jibes and acidulous comment that he will direct at a straw man." Boake Carter "could enter any intellectual goldfish swallowing contest." Arthur Krock "sometimes permits himself, without abating a whit of his stately...
...State had laws requiring that all children be schooled, some 800,000 U. S. children of elementary school age had no school to go to. Most of them were in poor farm areas that could not maintain a school. Hard times and a slump in real-estate tax collections (still the public schools' chief source of support) increased the number of unschooled children. The nation's public education system rallied from Depression three years ago, but this year was struck again by the backlash of the 1937 Recession. By last week so many distress signals flew over...
...Kansas City Art Institute to make him stay in one. Such simple little paintings as Rainy Day (see cut), done last year, impressed critics as new and less superficial renderings of what Benton has in his head. Most surprising, however, were a number of beautifully constructed still lifes with real depth and richness of texture. Said Tom Benton: "What there is in me to do I now know that...